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26.


month        
  1      month   months
     A month is one of the twelve periods of time that a year is divided into, for example January or February.
        The trial is due to begin next month.
        ...an exhibition which opens this month at London's Design Museum...
        I send him fifteen dollars a month.
     N-COUNT
     
  2      month   months
     A month is a period of about four weeks.
        She was here for a month.
        Over the next several months I met most of her family.
        They had all spent s430 for a month's unlimited train travel around Europe.
     N-COUNT
     
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ashtray        
       ashtray   ashtrays
     An ashtray is a small dish in which smokers can put the ash from their cigarettes and cigars.
     N-COUNT
     
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28.


pin        
  1      pin   pins
     Pins are very small thin pointed pieces of metal. They are used in sewing to fasten pieces of material together until they have been sewn.
        ...needles and pins...
        Use pins to keep the braid in place as you work.
     N-COUNT
     
  2      pin   pins   pinning   pinned
     If you pin something on or to something, you attach it with a pin, a drawing pin, or a safety pin.
        They pinned a notice to the door.
        Everyone was supposed to dance with the bride and pin money on her dress.
        He had pinned up a map of Finland.
     VB
     
  3      pin   pins   pinning   pinned
     If someone pins you to something, they press you against a surface so that you cannot move.
        I pinned him against the wall.
        I'd try to get away and he'd pin me down, saying he would kill me.
        She fought at the bulk that pinned her.
     VB
     
  4      pin   pins
     A pin is any long narrow piece of metal or wood that is not sharp, especially one that is used to fasten two things together.
        ...the 18-inch steel pin holding his left leg together.
        ...a two-pin continental adaptor.
     N-COUNT
     
  5      pin   pins   pinning   pinned
     If someone tries to pin something on you or to pin the blame on you, they say, often unfairly, that you were responsible for something bad or illegal.
        They're trying to pin it on us.
        The trade unions are pinning the blame for the violence on the government.
     VB
     
  6      pin   pins   pinning   pinned
     If you pin your hopes on something or pin your faith on something, you hope very much that it will produce the result you want.
        The Democrats are pinning their hopes on the next election.
     VB
     
  7      pin   pins   pinning   pinned
     If someone pins their hair up or pins their hair back, they arrange their hair away from their face using hair pins.
        Cleanse your face thoroughly and pin back your hair.
        In an effort to look older she has pinned her fair hair into a French pleat.
     VB
     
  8      pin   pins
     A pin is something worn on your clothing, for example as jewellery, which is fastened with a pointed piece of metal. (AM)
        ...necklaces, bracelets, and pins.
     N-COUNT
     
  9      pin   pins
     A pin is the part of a hand grenade that is pulled out in order to make the grenade explode.
     N-COUNT
     
  10      pin
     You can say you could have heard a pin drop when a place is extremely quiet, especially because everyone is waiting for someone to speak or when someone has made a shocking remark.
     PHR emphasis
     
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contact lens        
       contact lens   contact lenses
     Contact lenses are small plastic lenses that you put on the surface of your eyes to help you see better, instead of wearing glasses.
     N-COUNT: usu pl
     
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30.


how much
     You use how much when you are asking about the price of something. For example, you say `How much is that T-shirt?'
        I like that dress -- how much is it?

     Note that you do not say `How much is the price of that T-shirt?'

     You only use how much with `be' when you are asking about the price of something. You do not use it to ask about other amounts of money. You do not say, for example, `How much is his income?' You say `What is his income?', `What does he earn?', or `How much does he earn?'

     Similarly, you do not say `How much is the temperature outside?' or `How much is the population of Tokyo?' You say `What is the temperature outside?' or `What is the population of Tokyo?'
        What is the current in the resistor?
        What is the lowest temperature it's possible to reach?

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call        
  1      call   calls   calling   called
     If you call someone or something by a particular name or title, you give them that name or title.
        I always wanted to call the dog Mufty for some reason.
        `Doctor...'n`Will you please call me Sarah?'.
        Everybody called each other by their surnames.
     VB
     
       called
        Klein's most important work is called `Envy and Gratitude'.
        There are two men called Buckley at the Home Office.
        ...a device called an optical amplifier.
     ADJ: v-link ADJ
     
  2      call   calls   calling   called
     If you call someone or something a particular thing, you suggest they are that thing or describe them as that thing.
        The speech was interrupted by members of the Conservative Party, who called him a traitor.
        I wouldn't call it a burden; I call it a responsibility.
        She calls me lazy and selfish.
        He called it particularly cynical to begin the releases on Christmas Day.
        Anyone can call themselves a psychotherapist.
     VB
     
  3      call   calls   calling   called
     If you call something, you say it in a loud voice, because you are trying to attract someone's attention.
        He could hear the others downstairs in different parts of the house calling his name.
        `Boys!' she called again.
     VB
     
  +      call out   calls out; calling out; called out
     Call out means the same as call.
        The butcher's son called out a greeting.
        The train stopped and a porter called out, `Middlesbrough!'
     PHR-V
     
  4      call   calls   calling   called
     If you call someone, you telephone them.
        Would you call me as soon as you find out? My number's in the phone book.
        A friend of mine gave me this number to call.
        `May I speak with Mr Coyne, please?'n`May I ask who's calling?'
     VB
     = telephone
  5      call   calls   calling   called
     If you call someone such as a doctor or the police, you ask them to come to you, usually by telephoning them.
        He screamed for his wife to call an ambulance.
        One night he was called to see a woman with tuberculosis.
     VB
     
  6      call   calls   calling   called
     If you call someone, you ask them to come to you by shouting to them.
        She called her young son: `Here, Stephen, come and look at this!'.
        He called me over the Tannoy.
     VB
     
  7      call   calls
     When you make a telephone call, you telephone someone.
        I made a phone call to the United States to talk to a friend.
        I've had hundreds of calls from other victims.
        I got a call from him late yesterday evening.
     N-COUNT
     
  8      call   calls   calling   called
     If someone in authority calls something such as a meeting, rehearsal, or election, they arrange for it to take place at a particular time.
        The Committee decided to call a meeting of the All India Congress.
        The RSC was calling a press conference to announce its closure.
        The strike was called by the Lebanese Forces militia.
        A meeting has been called for Monday.
     VB
     
  9      call   calls   calling   called
     If someone is called before a court or committee, they are ordered to appear there, usually to give evidence.
        The child waited two hours before she was called to give evidence.
        I was called as an expert witness.
     VB: usu passive
     = summon
  10      call   calls   calling   called
     If you call somewhere, you make a short visit there.
        A market researcher called at the house where he was living.
        Andrew now came almost weekly to call.
     VB
     
  +      call   calls
     Also a noun.
        He decided to pay a call on Tommy Cummings.
     N-COUNT
     
  11      call   calls   calling   called
     When a train, bus, or ship calls somewhere, it stops there for a short time to allow people to get on or off.
        The steamer calls at several palm-fringed ports along the way.
     VB
     
  12      call   calls   calling   called
     To call a game or sporting event means to cancel it, for example because of rain or bad light. (AM)
        The second game of the series had ended in a 3-3 tie after ten innings when the game was called on account of darkness.
        We called the next game.
     VB
     = call off
  13      call   calls
     If there is a call for something, someone demands that it should happen.
        There have been calls for a new kind of security arrangement.
        Almost all workers heeded a call by the trade unions to stay at home for the duration of the strike.
     N-COUNT: usu N for n, N to-inf
     
  14      call
     If there is little or no call for something, very few people want it to be done or provided.
        `Have you got just plain chocolate?'n`No, I'm afraid there's not much call for that.'
     N-UNCOUNT: with brd-neg, N for n
     = demand
  15      call
     The call of something such as a place is the way it attracts or interests you strongly.
        You must be feeling exhilarated by the call of the new.
     N-SING: with poss
     = pull, lure
  16      call   calls
     The call of a particular bird or animal is the characteristic sound that it makes.
        ...the plaintive call of a whale.
        ...a wide range of animal noises and bird calls.
     N-COUNT
     
  17      call
     If you have first call on something, you will be asked before anyone else whether you want to buy or use it.
        Why should they get first call on the best property?
     PHR: PHR after v, PHR n
     = first refusal on
  18      call
     If you say that there is no call for someone to behave in a particular way, you are criticizing their behaviour, usually because you think it is rude.
        There was no call for him to single you out from all the others.
     PHR: PHR n to-inf, PHR n disapproval
     = there is no need for
  19      call
     If someone is on call, they are ready to go to work at any time if they are needed, especially if there is an emergency.
        In theory I'm on call day and night.
        ...a doctor on call.
     PHR: PHR after v, v-link PHR
     
  20      call
     If you call in sick, you telephone the place where you work to tell them you will not be coming to work because you are ill.
        `Shouldn't you be at work today?'n`I called in sick.'
     PHR: V inflects
     
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2.journalist        
       journalist   journalists
     A journalist is a person whose job is to collect news and write about it for newspapers, magazines, television, or radio.
     N-COUNT
     = reporter
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3. parent        
  1      parent   parents
     Your parents are your mother and father.
        Children need their parents.
        This is where a lot of parents go wrong.
        When you become a parent the things you once cared about seem to have less value.
     N-COUNT: usu pl
     
        See also foster parent, one-parent family, single parent.
  2      parent
     An organization's parent organization is the organization that created it and usually still controls it.
        Each unit including the parent company has its own, local management.
        ...the zoo's parent body, the Zoological Society of London.
     ADJ: ADJ n
     
  3      parent
     The parent animal, plant, or organism of a particular animal, plant or organism is the one that it comes from or is produced by.
        Parent birds began to hunt for food for their young.
     ADJ: ADJ n
     
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4.
photograph        
  1      photograph   photographs
     A photograph is a picture that is made using a camera.
        He wants to take some photographs of the house.
        Her photograph appeared on the front page of The New York Times.
     N-COUNT
     
  2      photograph   photographs   photographing   photographed
     When you photograph someone or something, you use a camera to obtain a picture of them.
        She photographed the children.
        I hate being photographed.
        They were photographed kissing on the platform.
     VB

5.   after        
        In addition to the uses shown below, after is used in phrasal verbs such as `ask after', `look after', and `take after'.
  1      after
     If something happens after a particular date or event, it happens during the period of time that follows that date or event.
        After 19 May, strikes were occurring on a daily basis.
        After breakfast Amy ordered the local taxi to take her to the station.
        It wasn't until after Christmas that I met Paul.
     PREP
     * before
  +      after
     Also a conjunction.
        After Don told me this, he spoke of his mother.
        Marina cared for him after he seriously injured his eye several years ago.
     CONJ-SUBORD
     
  2      after
     If you do one thing after doing another, you do it during the period of time that follows the other thing.
        After completing and signing it, please return the form to us in the envelope provided.
        ...women who have changed their mind after deciding not to have children...
        After flying from Los Angeles to London, allow four full days to adjust.
     PREP: PREP -ing
     * before
  3      after
     You use after when you are talking about time. For example, if something is going to happen during the day after or the weekend after a particular time, it is going to happen during the following day or during the following weekend.
        She's leaving the day after tomorrow.
        ...the party's annual conference, to be held the week after next.
     PREP: n PREP n
     
  +      after
     Also an adverb.
        Tomorrow. Or the day after.
     ADV: ADV after v
     
  4      after
     If you go after someone, you follow or chase them.
        Alice said to Gina, `Why don't you go after him, he's your son.'
        ...people who were after him for large amounts of money.
     PREP
     
  5      after
     If you are after something, you are trying to get it.
        They were after the money.
        I did eventually find what I was after.
     PREP
     
  6      after
     If you call, shout, or stare after someone, you call, shout, or stare at them as they move away from you.
        `Come back!' he called after me.
        Claire stared after him until he disappeared around a corner.
     PREP
     
  7      after
     If you do something after someone, you do it for them, because they cannot or will not do it for themselves.
        She used to mess up the floor and I had to clean up after her.
     PREP
     = for
  8      after
     If you tell someone that one place is a particular distance after another, you mean that it is situated beyond the other place and further away from you.
        Seven kilometres after the sharp bends and before the village of Piccione, turn right to Montelabate.
     PREP
     = past * before
  9      after
     If one thing is written after another thing on a page, it is written following it or underneath it.
        I wrote my name after Penny's at the bottom of the page.
     PREP
     = following
  10      after
     You use after in order to give the most important aspect of something when comparing it with another aspect.
        After Germany, America is Britain's second-biggest customer.
        Methane is often regarded as the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide.
     PREP
     
  11      after
     To be named after someone means to be given the same name as them. (BRIT; in AM use for)
        Phillimore Island is named after Sir Robert Phillimore.
        He persuaded Virginia to name the baby after him.
     PREP
     
  12      after
     If you say `after you' to someone, you are being polite and allowing them to go in front of you or through a doorway before you do.
        `After you.'n`Not at all, Mr Bird, after you.'
     CONVENTION politeness
     
  13      after
     After is used when telling the time. If it is, for example, ten after six, the time is ten minutes past six. (AM)
     PREP
     = before
  14      after
     If you do something to several things one after the other or one after another, you do it to one, then the next, and so on, with no break between your actions.
        Sybil ate three ginger biscuits, one after the other, greedily.
        Caroline was trying on one outfit after another.
     PHR
     
  15      after
     If something happens day after day or year after year, it happens every day or every year, for a long time.
        I waited for news, day after day, expecting to hear.
        ...people who'd been coming here year after year.
     PHR
     
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